While it may seem the rankers are battling to outrank one another, QS’s Nunzio Quacquarelli writes that it very much depends what users are looking for. In the past three months, a number of researchers of global university rankings have ...

Are reasons for non-completions worth examining, asks John Mitchell. The discussion paper recently released by Skills Australia, Creating a future direction for Australian VET, raised some immediate controversies, (Campus Review Vol 20, No 21) but one particular section of the ...

This year’s global university rankings rankled many in the sector. The dissatisfaction was not confined to Australia, but here we did see vice-chancellors question the methodologies of the three major agencies, Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), Times Higher Education (THE) and Shanghai ...

With the Australian Teaching and Learning Council awards announced next week three former winners Mark Israel, Iain Hay, Lisa Emerson take a wry look at impacts on their careers Prepare an acceptance ‘speech’. Those who get to deliver an acceptance ...

Educators need to think about doing things differently Along with the theory of relativity, Albert Einstein is credited with the much quoted dictum: “You can’t continue to do the same thing and expect different results.” It is also, I believe, ...

Australia is about to experience an explosion in the number and type of skilled workforce members it will need to achieve its economic goals over the next decade. The face of Australia’s workforce is set to change dramatically in the ...

Students and industry best judges of sector success, John Mitchell discovers Attend any large VET conference nowadays and it is likely that key speakers will argue that if Australia is to be upskilled quickly then the public provider, TAFE, which ...

Change is on the way in vocational education writes Robin Ryan. Those of us who have been predicting and proposing new ways of managing the sector’s institutional structures and policy settings are being rewarded with signs of significant change. A ...

Browne review has given UK universities an idea of the scale of cuts to their teaching budgets, but research remains the big unknown, writes John Ross. At the end of 2008, Denise Bradley handed over her recipe for higher education ...

This week’s Browne review poses dangers for students. But it’s also treacherous territory for Britain’s new coalition government, writes John Ross. Next week, British higher education finds out just how much money it’s going to lose over the next few ...